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Pro-Trump FCC chair willing to yank media broadcast licenses, says they're not 'sacred cows'
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has embraced President Donald Trump's approach to media accountability, threatening to revoke licenses and investigating major broadcasters like Comcast.
License revocations are a lot more complicated than Trump makes them sound. The FCC doesn't issue licenses directly to networks such as CBS, NBC, or ABC. The FCC's licensing authority is over broadcast stations, although many of those stations are owned and operated by a big network.
The Center for American Rights says there is a ‘simple solution’ to addressing complaints of bias at the network, but it has not taken that step.
President Trump lashed out on social media late Sunday against ABC and NBC, putting the nation's top broadcast regulator once more at the center of his culture wars.
As Nexstar and Tegna gobble up more stations, broadcasters don't want to sit on the sidelines. Will the FCC let the Big Four jump in?
CBS News is weighing naming Weiss editor in chief or co-president of the network, sources told The Post, as the network’s new owner, David Ellison also weighs a broader deal to buy Bari Weiss’s scrappy news site, The Free Press, in a deal valued at upwards of $100 million.
Wanted: MAGA-leaning broadcast executive looking to serve as a news “ombudsman,” and make CBS News less of a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party. Stating Salary: $250,000 a year. Hours: One day a month. Not a bad gig — and it’s exactly what ...